GFS2: Fix use-after-free race when calling gfs2_remove_from_ail
authorBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:06:35 +0000 (12:06 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:25:15 +0000 (12:25 -0800)
commit6d9c4a00e9d7c4506f29b94c85b07d815cc11b8a
tree4dd99d8144853f8adf52bca460a2c0847aacfc38
parentc2ff1ad9bc31833dc738d077091e497f78e96255
GFS2: Fix use-after-free race when calling gfs2_remove_from_ail

commit 9290a9a7c0bcf5400e8dbfbf9707fa68ea3fb338 upstream.

Function gfs2_remove_from_ail drops the reference on the bh via
brelse. This patch fixes a race condition whereby bh is deferenced
after the brelse when setting bd->bd_blkno = bh->b_blocknr;
Under certain rare circumstances, bh might be gone or reused,
and bd->bd_blkno is set to whatever that memory happens to be,
which is often 0. Later, in gfs2_trans_add_unrevoke, that bd fails
the test "bd->bd_blkno >= blkno" which causes it to never be freed.
The end result is that the bd is never freed from the bufdata cache,
which results in this error:
slab error in kmem_cache_destroy(): cache `gfs2_bufdata': Can't free all objects

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/gfs2/log.c